To address the lack of standardized systems for dealing with threats within and across conservation organizations, this paper focuses on developing five sets of conventions for describing threats: (a) a framework for defining threats and related factors, (b) a...

This editorial describes the need for a standard taxonomy to create a common language that conservationists can use to talk about the problems we all face. The authors also formally release the first public versions of the IUCN-CMP Taxonomy of Direct Threats and the...